Measurement and Modeling of Energetic-Material Mass Transfer to Soil-Pore Water

Military test and training ranges operate with live-fire engagements to provide realism important to the maintenance of key tactical skills. Ordnance detonations during these operations typically produce minute residues of parent explosive chemical compounds. Occasional low-order detonations also di...

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Main Authors: Webb, Stephen W, Phelan, James M, Hadgu, Teklu, Stein, Joshua S, Sallaberry, Cedric M
Format: Report
Language:English
Subjects:
EXPLOSIVES
FIRING RANGE POLLUTION
FIRING TESTS(ORDNANCE)
GROUND WATER
Hydrology, Limnology and Potamology
MASS TRANSFER
RANGES(FACILITIES)
SOIL POLLUTION
SOIL-PORE WATER
WATER POLLUTION
Water Pollution and Control
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Summary:Military test and training ranges operate with live-fire engagements to provide realism important to the maintenance of key tactical skills. Ordnance detonations during these operations typically produce minute residues of parent explosive chemical compounds. Occasional low-order detonations also disperse solid-phase energetic material onto the surface soil. These detonation remnants are implicated in chemical contamination impacts to groundwater on a limited set of ranges where environmental characterization projects have occurred. Key questions arise regarding how these residues and the environmental conditions (e.g., weather and geostratigraphy) contribute to groundwater pollution. This final report documents the results of experimental and simulation model development for evaluating mass-transfer processes from solid-phase energetics to soil-pore water. The original document contains color images.